transitive. To fill (a person) with awe; (originally) to strike fear into, terrify; (later usually) to arouse or inspire in (someone) a feeling of…

transitive. To destroy the confidence or self-possession of; to daunt, dismay, discomfit; to disconcert, put out of countenance, abash.

transitive. To enfeeble or weaken; to daunt, dismay, deprive of strength; to impair or diminish. Obsolete.

transitive. To daunt, frighten. Obsolete.

transitive. To confound, trouble.

transitive. To disconcert; to make helpless with terror, shame, or discouragement; to daunt, abash, put to shame; to stupefy, baffle.

transitive. To threaten; to bully, terrify. Scottish.

transitive. To frighten (a person) into submission; to daunt, intimidate; to cause to quail. Now rare (Irish English).

transitive. To defy proudly, challenge; also, to bully, threaten. Obsolete exc. dialect.

To make pale with fear, to dismay. Cf. appal, v. 8.

transitive. To bear down, discourage, or oppose, with stern, arrogant, or insolent looks or words; to snub, to bully; ‘to depress with severe brows…

transitive. To daunt, overawe; to terrify.

transitive. To surpass in or overcome by daring; to daunt. Obsolete.

transitive. To make a dastard of; to cow, terrify.

To prostrate mentally; in weaker sense, to shock, depress. Obsolete except in to strike all of (†on) a heap (colloquial): see heap, n. 5e.

transitive. To strip of daring, cow, quell.

transitive. ‘To depress with fear’ (Johnson); to dispirit, overawe, intimidate.

To daunt, terrify, paralyse with fear. Now dialect.

transitive. To daunt, subdue, frighten.

transitive. To talk big at; to bully. In modern colloquial use, To ‘blow up’, scold roundly.

= dastard, v.

transitive. To render timid, inspire with fear; to overawe, cow; in modern use esp. to force to or deter from some action by threats or violence.

transitive. To intimidate by bluster or threats; to domineer over; to bully; to bring or force out of or into something by threats or insolence.

transitive. To outdo in hectoring; to overcome by bluster; to bully, intimidate.

transitive. To hector, bully; to scold, chide, storm at. (Cf. modern colloquial ‘to blow up’.)

transitive. To behave in an overbearing, intimidating, or aggressive manner towards (someone); (now usually) to seek to harm, intimidate, or coerce…

transitive. To subject (an individual or group) to unwarranted (and now esp. unlawful) physical or psychological intimidation, usually persistently…

transitive. To overawe, intimidate. Also: to scold, harass, badger.

transitive. To bully, domineer over. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. gen. To bully; to intimidate; to tease and ridicule.

transitive and intransitive = bully, v.1 Obsolete exc. dialect.

Originally U.S. to push (someone) around: to move or cause (a person) to be moved roughly from place to place, to manhandle. Now chiefly figurative…

One who or that which frightens; spec. a member of a criminal gang who intimidates the victims of its activities, esp. in to put the frighteners i…

colloquial (originally U.S.). To influence psychologically. transitive. To gain a psychological advantage over; to intimidate, demoralize. Usually…

transitive. To intimidate, cause to feel uneasy; to send a negative feeling or ‘vibe’ to. Usually with out.